- business; professional work; service; CL:項|项[xiang4]
- (idiom) not to get involved; to stay out of it
- money; paper money
- power switch; gas valve; to open the city (or frontier) gate; to open and close; to switch on and off
- eager; impatient; guileless
- to contrast; contrast; ratio; CL:個|个[ge4]
- a tide of people
- to surge up violently (of ocean, river, lake etc); turbulent
- the populace; the masses; the common people
- riot; rebellion; revolt
- to like; to be fond of; to take pleasure in; to be keen on; interest; hobby
- avaricious and insatiable (idiom); greedy and never satisfied
- to move away
- unbearable to look at; an eyesore
- (literary) dirty; filthy; (literary) dirt; filth
- new hand; novice; raw recruit
- (idiom) situated high; aloft; (idiom) (fig.) aloof and remote; situated above the masses and out of touch with reality
- shirt collar
- to place in; to put in (a position)
- chest
- lit. not one drop can trickle through (idiom); fig. (of crowds, traffic etc) impenetrable
- (onom.) sound of coughing or vomiting
- (onom.) (sound of sth smashing as it hits the ground); (onom.) (sound made by a camera shutter)
- right hand; right-hand side
- left hand; left-hand side
- both ends; both parties to a deal
- to be in a tangle; to nag
- to seize and subject to public criticism (form of persecution during the Cultural Revolution)
- walnut; CL:顆|颗[ke1]
- delicate; dainty
- color and luster
- to intertwine; to band together (with); to link up (with); twisted; tangled; confused; to be at a loss; to struggle (mentally) with (sth); to overthink; to feel conflicted
- vigorous; energetic
- 炸 zhá: 炸 zha2: to deep fry; (coll.) to blanch (a vegetable); Taiwan pr. [zha4]炸 zhà: 炸 zha4: to burst; to explode; to blow up; to bomb; (coll.) to fly into a rage; (coll.) to scamper off; to scatter
- to collapse; to topple over